Petulant Professor

using violence to liberate people from sweatshops, unsafe mines, and grinding poverty isn't the same as using violence to impose those things on people. the idea that violence is morally repugnant regardless of context is a belief that every oppressor throughout history would love for the oppressed to hold

this girl must have pussy like a pizza bc Everytime she fucks me I have little seizures

So I haven't read Dune Messiah, but does Herbert not consider all the genocides a bad thing? Like, what Paul leads them to is killing billions, exterminating hundreds of religions, and "sterilising" dozens of planets. Is it like "well, this is how historic changes happen, the weak are swept away" or something?

One thing I really like about Beverly Engel's book It Wasn't Your Fault, which is about PTSD-induced toxic shame, is that quite a bit of it deals with people who haven't broken The Cycle of Abuse (TM) and have gone on to hurt others. That's a really underserved and vulnerable patient population, and statistically, it's also MASSIVE. I don't think I've read a single other self-help type book on PTSD and self-loathing that confronts the possibility that you're exactly as bad as you think you are.

I felt better that it so much as mentioned that children can react to abuse with ungovernable rage. Everybody likes the image of PTSD patients as internalizing everything and becoming doormats, which does happen, and often, but it's not the only narrative. Personally I've always hated my abusers and have always wanted everyone who so much as breathed wrong in my direction from ages 0 to 18 to burn eternally in hell. I *never* thought any of it was my fault and ever since I was a toddler I was willing to make it everybody else's problem, and it's really relieving to read a clinical perspective that acknowledges that abuse victims can act that way too.

Since the Evil Dead series has increasingly become about the corruption of and escalation of violence between family members I think it should be said that we need an Evil Dead film where the final girl is a trans woman

And before people jump to saying I’m for murder porn of conservative family members (which isn’t untrue but let me cook) let me be clear this is also about people who seemed supportive or were working on being supportive backsliding and regressing in moments of stress

The Book of the Dead in this film should be found in a church. At some point a Deadite should mutilate the body they’re possessing as a cruel taunt towards the trans character. I want the trans character to start the film afraid to stand up for herself and end the film holding a chainsaw and saying something like, “Women don’t start fights, but we do finish them”

There should be an after credit scene where Ash J. Williams hits on the trans woman in a bar and then motion towards the trans pin she’s wearing and ask what country she’s from

Someone get this woman in the writers' room

once again i love how star wars takes place in a massive galaxy with thousands of planets and billions of people, and yet every bounty hunter knows each other personally

It's called networking babe

when Boba Fett adds you on LinkedIn you know you've made it

i tried explaining to this girl at a party once how i could be gay and asexual at the same time and it basically boils down to never being into anyone but like once a year i’ll find a man attractive. and she was like “so what am i if i only like girls, and i’ve never found any of my boyfriends attractive and and i just wanna do cocaine all the time?” i was like “you’re a lesbian with a coke addiction?” and she was like “woooooah”. she broke up with her boyfriend that night and had a threesome with two girls in the bathtub. rebecca if you’re out there, i hope you’re going places. well, not far, since you’re electronically tagged. but spiritually.

Analyzing the politics of a work that's meant to be apolitical is actually a really interesting exercise because it asks you to critically examine what the creator considers to be "political" in the first place. Which ideas are just How Things Are, and which ones are Political, and how is that influenced by the creator's beliefs?

Usually this just ends up with you looking like a moron btw

Angrily lashing out at the suggestion that it's possible to do basic media analysis was foundational to the ragebait ecosystem of the 2010s, from which we got basically the entire culture of modern far right politics, btw.

I genuinely believe myself and others are being so sincere and literal when we say TOUCH GRASS

I went outside and got an education, that's where I learned that you can obtain knowledge and insight through analytical methods, then noticed that some people who sit on the internet yelling at strangers get really mad about that constantly.

Makes the action figure version of you pink to better align with your parent franchise's target audience.

I like the forcefem undertones of this post.

Focus group polling of key market demographics indicates that you should put on the dress.

trying to calculate which part of your godforsaken body you should aim to preserve while choosing a sleeping position on any given night